These sprinkle covered sugar cubes are an easy DIY gift for all your tea drinkers, coffee sippers and sugar addicts. I told you about my obsession with sugar bags, so of course sugar with sugar on top will be a hit in my book. What is not to love about a gift you can eat?! I contemplated wrapping it in bacon, but really didn’t want to cause any cardiac problems with you my dears 😉
Decorating sugar cubes is just like decorating cookies – if they were really tiny cookies. Here is what you need:
Material
- sugar cubes, as many as you like
- various sprinkles (make sure you have some large element ones, like hearts and stars)
- 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
- 1 1/4 tsp. water
- piping bag with small round tip (I used Wilton #3)
- an empty chocolate box (redecorated if you like, with some card stock and glue)
- small paper liners (those used for making truffles and chocolate)
1. Lay out the amount of sugar cubes you want to decorate. Put your sprinkles in cupcake liners or small tins. Mix the “glue” by making sugar icing and combining the powdered sugar with water (1/2 tsp. at a time). You want a rather thick icing consistency.
2. Fill your piping bag with the icing mixture. Dab small dollops on the sugar cubes, press larger elements on top or dip for small sprinkles.
Get creative and have fun with it. Try tracing out shapes with the icing and then dipping it into colored sugar dust. You can package the little sweeties in many different ways. I tried three ways and like the chocolate box version the best, how about you?
I made some tea in my Grandma’s collector cup – perfectly served with pretty sugar cubes.
Hope you will try this!
Jacque says
These are really nice, Dani! I would love to be on the receiving end of this gift! 🙂
Eva says
What a sweet idea!! I have never thought about decorating sugar cubes, but the idea is just great 🙂
Best regards,
Eva (BYW)
geraldine says
What a great fun idea. thanks for sharing. the photos look good too 🙂
Simone says
That’s à great idea even though I never use sugar in my coffee or tea but its fun to try this and it does make a good gift…:)
Ilze says
These are cute !! Definitely pinning them now… (says the lady who just admitted in her last blog posts she never does anything with her pins !! ha-ha and on top of it don’t drink sugar in my tea or coffee !!)
But I think it will be a super touch for a ladies tea !! Will try one day. Inspired.
Dani says
lol, I hear you, I’d like to pitch the idea to pinterest to add a check mark box, as in been there, done this, cooked it… 🙂
Jasmin says
Hi Dani, appears that I was deadly wrong when suggesting that I knew in which direction you intended to go on when I saw the sprinkels on Instagram. No cookies or cupcakes. But this is even greater 🙂 It’s a cute treat for loveliey with a sweet tooth. Well done *thumbs up*.
Alma says
Try with brown sugar cubes and caramel for the “glue” taste awesome for herbal teas!
Dani says
Great idea!
Alma says
Or just use hibiscus syrup for glue and you’ll got a glass of perfect aqua de Jamaica!
Dani says
That sounds brilliant!
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